It's like he can't hide the fact that he knows the joke is on us.
well it is!
i see the same revealing prepotenza in gordo's louche leers, bliar's smirking disingenuousness, berlu's comical narcissism, they're all actors and can't keep their masks from slipping occasionally.
they're there to be unctuous, commanding, whatever the public projects its needs to be for a leader, but the strain is hideous, and it sometimes shows... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~